Informal settlements of the Global South. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gihan Karunaratne.
• Editors: Karunaratne, Gihan
• Contents: List of Contributors Section 1: The emergence of ‘global south spaces’ in the north 1. Diasporic Urbanism Nishat Awan (TU Delft) 2. Temporary Sheltering, Empowering Design, and The Jungle: A Case for Architects. Text by Mark Breeze (Architectural Association) and photography by Henk Wildschut (Documentary Photographer) 3. Wireless borders: illegal bodies and connected futures. Luis Hernan (University of Sheffield) 4. Connecting the Camps: Spatialising the ECHO Mobile Library in Greece. Kitya Mark & Irit Katz, University of Cambridge. 5. Digital and physical spaces in informal settlements: Migrants, Refugee Camps, and Mapping. Silvio Carta, Miriam Usiskin, Bobby Lloyd & Paul Tabar Section 2: Seeking Refuge in Global South Camps 6. Accommodating Informality in the Spatial Planning of the Kalobeyei Refugee Settlement, Kenya. Cory Rodgers, Refugee Studies Center, (University of Oxford) & Ekai Nabenyo (Maseno University) 7. Understanding the Everyday Movements of South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda. Ryan Joseph O’Byrne_Post-Doctoral Researcher | Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa (London School of Economics and Political Science) 8. The Ephemeral as an instrument of Urban Design and Planning. Nusrat Jahan Mim & Rahul Mehrotra (Harvard University) Section 3: Informal responses of the Informal Settlements in the Global South 9. The Invisible beyond Visible: The Perils of Urban Regeneration in Colombo’s Slave Island Gihan Karunaratne, Jagath Munasinghe (University of Moratuwa) & Tanzil Shafique (University of Sheffield) 10. A Note on the Door: Symbolic Erasure and Representational Resistance in Rio de Janeiro. Adam Kaasa & Bruna Montuori (Royal College of Arts) 11. Organic Urban Regeneration: An Inclusive Urban Design for Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Residential Neighborhoods of Ningbo, China. Ali Cheshmehzangi & Eugenio Mangi (The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China) 12. Towards a ‘hybrid’ governance approach: The way out of the urban development crisis in Lagos, Nigeria? A critical assessment with Makoko as a case study. Fabienne Hoelzel (Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design) 13. Embracing in[formal]ity: An exploration of grounded architectural practice in Cape Town Rudolf Perold (Cape Peninsula University of Technology) & Hermie Delport, (STADIO) 14. The Why? How? What? and What-ifs of mass slum rehabilitation housing in India Ronita Bardhan & Jiayu Pan (University of Cambridge) CODA 15. The Pandemic and Informal settlements. Cynthia Goytia (Cynthia Goytia. Torcuato Di Tella University and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 307.336; Squatter settlements -- Developing countries; City planning -- Developing countries; Urban policy -- Developing countries
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000887174; 9781000887143
• Related ISBNs: 9781032043074
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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